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MCC again on the debate
NC leader Gyanendra Bahadur Karki was the finance minister in the Sher Bahadur Deuba led government. Then finance minister had signed the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Now, Deuba is the PM and Karki is the minister. It is said that there is a good environment for endorsement of MCC from the House from where Deuba bagged a two-thirds majority while seeking confidence motion.
Even though, Washington is suspicious and unhappy about the delayed endorsement of the American grant project.
Outgoing prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli was also in favour of the MCC. His finance minister Yubraj Khatiwada signed around ten supplementary agreements related to the MCC. If Pushpakamal Dahal Prachanda had supported Oli, the MCC would have been tabled in the House. A debate would have been taken place on the pros and cons of the grant project.
Then speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara kept the MCC file pending. Again, Agni Sapkota, the new speaker, kept the file pending under the instruction of Prachanda.
Prachanda is seeking a mass amnesty on the cases related to severe violation of human rights and thus he is seeking American support. As a bargaining card, Prachanda is holding the MCC grant project.
The Americans are expressing unhappiness from the delayed adoption of the MCC project. In the meantime, the American envoy said in a TV programme with Bhushan Dahal that MCC is an American investment. Again, the Nepali intellectuals have been confused. If MCC is an investment, surely, there is a profit strategy. If the MCC belongs to the Indo-Pacific Strategy, then Nepal, a non-aligned nation, becomes the NATO member.
Be that as it may, a wide range of debate is necessary before the adoption of the American project.
Concept of supper prime minister
Sher Bahadur Deuba is the PM but Pushpakamal Dahal Prachanda has wished to become the supper prime minister by developing a high-level mechanism to guide and dictate the PM.
Now, Deuba will dance to the tune of Prachanda!
156 MPs on the ministerial race!
Deuba bagged a two-thirds majority in the House but the MPs had voted him with the hope of becoming the minister. Immediately they will withdraw their support to the government if they will not be rewarded with the ministerial portfolio.
Now, Prachanda also said that his brain is not functioning as all the Maoist Center MPs are wishing to become the minister.
Deuba is not a prime minister who cannot expand his cabinet. He has established a record of constituting the largest ever cabinet.
Maybe, the constitutional hurdle is that he cannot give a cabinet above 25 ministers. However, there is a way for constituting a larger cabinet. That is possible by amending the constitution through an ordinance. When the court is in favour of Deuba and when the government is comprised of five political parties and backed by four ex-prime ministers, the situation is much more favourable for Deuba to issue an ordinance. Why delay?
Quotes of the Week
(In response to Baburam Bhattarai’s tweet defaming the Hindu religion)
You may not have a belief in religion, you are free.
But you don’t have the right to attack my religion and culture. Even your parents will not give you this right. Go and ask, and if possible request them to remove the word “Ram” in your name.
Rama Singh
Due to such (Baburam Bhattarai) JNU production, JNU itself is becoming infamous and became a target in India.
Dipak Gyawali
(Replying to Baburam Bhattarai)
You feel a headache when a Yogi pours milk in a river, but you forgot that you shed human blood in the river, you shed human corpses, you shed human life!!
Kamal Thapa
It is better to be scorned than to scorn, for the man who is scorned sleeps happily, awakes happily, and goes about happily in this world; but the man who scorns perishes.
Manu on ‘Nyayaniti’
I warmly welcome the decision of PM Sher Bahadur Deuba not to hold a party meeting in Baluwatar. At first glance, this is a small thing, but such a small positive thing has a good effect on the people. Let this decision be faithfully followed.
Lokesh Dhakal
In order to be safe from the Hague and to save the money earned illegally from the PLA camp, they have been trying to create a strong unconstitutional mechanism with the plan of sticking in power. Don’t endorse such a plant – beware!
Dwarika Nath Dhungel
I heard the shopkeeper talking about buying fruits. Most of the fruits he sells are said to come from India and China. If local farmers were given incentives, they could grow fruits in Nepal saving billions of rupees going abroad.
Rather than an English-speaking economist, the best source of knowledge could be the fruit shopkeeper!
Gopi Khanal
Nepal’s politics has never seen the people except for the power. Citizens no longer accept the blueprint of the country’s development and the concrete blueprint of how to build Nepal in 10 years.
Yubaraj Sangroula
It seems, the trend of conversion of religion may finish Nepal’s existence.
They look like Nepalis in face and caste but carry a western agenda and religion. This is the biggest crisis for Nepalis today.
Raman
Government running in Nepal for quite some time looks similar to George Orwell’s Animal farm book predicament where farm animals connive and hatch a plot to overthrow the farm owner but then irony was that instead of giving liberty to the animals the crafty one started to rule.
Bharat Prasad Sharma, PhD
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